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San Bernardino County SunTue, 03 Mar 2015 12:07:41 -080060WASHINGTON >> A law enforcement official tells The Associated Press that a Justice Department investigation has found patterns of racial bias in the Ferguson, Missouri, police department and at the municipal jail and court.

The official says the investigation found that officers disproportionately used excessive force against blacks and too often charged them with petty offenses.

]]>Tue, 03 Mar 2015 11:43:35 -08002015-03-03T11:43:35-08:002015-03-03T11:43:35-08:00WASHINGTON >> A law enforcement official tells The Associated Press that a Justice Department investigation has found patterns of racial bias in the Ferguson, Missouri, police department and at the municipal jail and court.

The official says the investigation found that officers disproportionately used excessive force against blacks and too often charged them with petty offenses.

]]>Tue, 03 Mar 2015 11:41:36 -08002015-03-03T11:41:36-08:002015-03-03T11:41:36-08:00WASHINGTON >> In a speech that stirred political intrigue in two countries, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Congress on Tuesday that negotiations underway between Iran and the United States would "all but guarantee" that Tehran will get nuclear weapons, a step that the world must avoid at all costs.]]>Tue, 03 Mar 2015 06:49:31 -08002015-03-03T06:49:31-08:002015-03-03T09:29:52-08:00KYIV, Ukraine -- In Russia, it's not uncommon for prominent political figures and dissidents to end up behind bars.

Former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky spent a decade in jail, while two members of the feminist punk group Pussy Riot were in prison for almost two years.

The Kremlin's latest high-profile prisoner is 33-year-old Nadiya Savchenko, Ukraine's first female pilot and a poignant symbol of national resistance for many in her home country.

]]>Mon, 02 Mar 2015 08:57:57 -08002015-03-02T08:57:57-08:002015-03-02T08:57:57-08:00BOSTON -- Over the centuries, militant groups and radical regimes have targeted not just innocent lives but also historic and cultural artifacts preserved and revered by their victims.

In Afghanistan, it was the Taliban.

In 2001, Taliban fighters demolished two sandstone statues of Buddha that dated back to the 6th century with dynamite in the Bamiyan Valley.

]]>Mon, 02 Mar 2015 08:57:06 -08002015-03-02T08:57:06-08:002015-03-02T08:57:06-08:00PASADENA >> A NASA spacecraft is preparing to rendezvous with the largest object in the asteroid belt located between Mars and Jupiter.

The Dawn craft is on target to slip into orbit around the dwarf planet Ceres on Friday after a three-year journey. It'll be the second stop for Dawn, which earlier visited the asteroid Vesta.

]]>Mon, 02 Mar 2015 07:00:16 -08002015-03-02T07:00:16-08:002015-03-02T07:00:16-08:00WASHINGTON >> The Supreme Court is hearing an appeal from Arizona Republicans who want to take away a voter-approved commission's power to draw the state's congressional district boundaries.

The case before the court Monday considers whether voters can cut elected lawmakers out of redistricting in an effort to reduce political influence in the drawing of district lines for members of the U.

]]>Mon, 02 Mar 2015 06:42:03 -08002015-03-02T06:42:03-08:002015-03-02T06:42:03-08:00BOISE, Idaho >> Ten-year-old Alexis Carey has a rare but intractable form of epilepsy, Dravet Syndrome. The genetic disease causes severe and multiple seizures, which often leave parents guessing if the terror of watching their child seize up will pass or turn fatal.

Her Boise, Idaho, family learned that oil extracted from marijuana had helped other children and wanted to see if it would help Alexis too.

It was the third spacewalk in just over a week for Americans Terry Virts and Butch Wilmore, and the quickest succession of spacewalks since NASA's former shuttle days.

]]>Sun, 01 Mar 2015 08:43:12 -08002015-03-01T08:43:12-08:002015-03-01T10:52:54-08:00BEIRUT >> The Islamic State group released at least 19 Christians on Sunday who were among the more than 220 people the militants took captive in northeastern Syria last week, activists and a local leader said.

Bashir Saedi, a senior official in the Assyrian Democratic Organization, said the 16 men and three women arrived safely Sunday and were now at the Church of the Virgin Mary in the city of Hassakeh.

]]>Sun, 01 Mar 2015 10:48:09 -08002015-03-01T10:48:09-08:002015-03-01T10:48:09-08:00NEW YORK >> Samsung has unveiled a stylish new flagship phone that ditches its signature plastic design for more stylish metal and glass.

The South Korean phone manufacturer also unveiled a premium model with a display that curves around the left and right edges so that information can be quickly glanced at on the side.

The nation's first black president plans a speech Saturday from the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, the site of one of the movement's stirring moments, and will refocus on last year's fatal shooting by a white police officer of a black 18-year-old in Ferguson, Missouri.

]]>Sun, 01 Mar 2015 08:48:53 -08002015-03-01T08:48:53-08:002015-03-01T08:48:53-08:00MOSCOW >> Carrying flowers, portraits and signs that said "I am not afraid," more than 20,000 people somberly marched Sunday in Moscow to mourn opposition politician Boris Nemtsov, whose slaying on the streets of the capital has shaken Russia's beleaguered opposition.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has marginalized and intimidated his political opponents, jailing some and driving others into exile, since mass anti-Putin protests swept Moscow in 2011 and 2012.

]]>Sun, 01 Mar 2015 08:44:43 -08002015-03-01T08:44:43-08:002015-03-01T08:44:43-08:00FRANKFURT, Germany >> Small SUVs for families and powerful sports cars for the rich are the big things at this year's Geneva International Motor Show. Environmentally correct electrics and hybrids, not so much -- thanks to cheaper gas and limits on battery life.

Here are the major themes for the March 5-15 show:

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LOOKING FOR A WINNER

Analysts say this show is more about the search for hit vehicles than new technology, since automakers are trying to boost sales as Europe slowly recovers from its debt crisis.

]]>Sun, 01 Mar 2015 08:43:48 -08002015-03-01T08:43:48-08:002015-03-01T08:43:48-08:00FREETOWN, Sierra Leone >> Sierra Leone's vice president has put himself in quarantine following the death from Ebola of one of his security guards.

Vice President Samuel Sam-Sumana is set to become acting president later Sunday when President Ernest Bai Koroma leaves Sierra Leone to attend a European Union conference on Ebola in Belgium.